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Newspaper
Austin Daily Herald
Location
Austin, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1967
Page
1
An official at Cafaro Memorial Hospital says a court order may be sought to limit picketing interfering with deliveries of oxygen food and drugs. Florence Marsteller the hospital administrator said several picketers including non employees blocked oxygen and a food and drug delivery Tuesday.
New York Times quoted Premier Pham Van Dong saying North Vietnam seeks a settlement basis rather than hard-line terms for peace talks. He suggested Washington must take the first steps and cautioned against haste, while outlining four points including sovereignty and peaceful reunification.
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Ensign Manuel Lopez, on leave from Vietnam duty, married Sally Smayling of Wichita, Kansas after Maryland officials issued a special order. The couple resisted anti miscegenation statute in Upper Marlboro and married last Sunday. Lopez is from West Hyattsville and is aided by Cornelio Lopez, a Washington lawyer.
An unarmed Air Force Mace missile launched from Eglin AFB Florida veered from its programmed path and allegedly crossed toward Cuba over the Gulf of Mexico. The Defense Department confirmed no warhead was aboard and noted the test aimed to assess development, with an estimated impact near 11:21 a.m. EST about 100 miles south of Cuba. A quick statement preceded possible Cuban propaganda responses. The piece also notes St Olaf Hospital welcomed its first 197 baby Patricia Marie Jech arriving at 12:18 a.m. weighing seven pounds with brown hair and a ribbon for the photo.
Minnesota Governor Harold LeVander delivered a lengthy inaugural address urging a decade of action on tax reform state government overhaul and voting age reduction to 18. He proposed a seven county metropolitan services council, elderly property tax relief, higher state salaries, and a major drive against crime and highway fatalities.
Eight paintings valued at 7 million dollars recovered intact after five days. Three Rembrandts, three Rubens, and works by Gerald Dou and Adam Elsheimer found partly at a alleged thieves den and in a Streatham Common hideout near Dulwich Gallery in South London. Police say some pieces damaged slightly but in good condition despite frost.
Hoffa, facing a looming prison term after an eight year jury tampering sentence, keeps aides busy drafting nationwide trucking contract demands. He aims for wage increases of five to seven percent for about 500,000 Teamsters at 12,000 firms as contract talks open in Washington on January 17, with a Supreme Court hearing or new trial still possible.
Michael A. Nihart, 18, and his mother Mrs. Kenneth Nihart pleaded innocent in Municipal Court on charges from the December 22 crash that killed Gerald Hallman and William Foster. Nihart faces careless driving counts. his mother is charged with furnishing alcohol to minors and aiding underage drinkers. Trial dates set. bond posted and recognizance noted. Mitchell Buxton, a passenger, was only lightly injured.
George E. Broshears received a maximum five year prison term after admitting participation in a scheme that shipped about $20,000 worth of stolen meat to the West Coast from St. Paul.
The forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and continued cold conditions. Tonight’s low ranges from zero to eight above, with Thursday’s high between ten and eighteen degrees.
A brief traffic death tally shows seven year ago six deaths in Iowa today three years ago twelve deaths.
Francis C Turner, chief engineer for the Bureau of Public Roads since 1957, was named acting highway administrator by Secretary of Commerce John T Connor.
Minnesota House Speaker Lloyd L. Duxbury won a third term after a 92 to 40 victory over Liberal Richard O'Dea as conservatives hold a strong majority. In the Senate Lt. Gov. James Goetz swore in senators twice due to an incomplete roll call and pledged fair, fulltime support to the governor. Goetz is the first Republican lieutenant governor since 1954.
A man in a straw hat and scarf robbed Scott’s service station in Rochester Minnesota at about 11 p m Tuesday. He displayed a 22 caliber rifle and fled on foot with 600 to 650 dollars in cash and checks after forcing attendants George Jenson and Terry Lorch to lie on the floor.
In Hibbing three area youths were arraigned in municipal court on eight counts including kidnapping and aggravated robbery for the December 30 abduction and beating of Peter Shevchuk 20, Michael M. Krompetich 19, and Albert Estey 20 with additional charges of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle assault property damage and underage drinking. In Minneapolis Dr O Meredith Wilson president of the University of Minnesota was hospitalized after a two vehicle collision in front of his home suffering three fractured ribs while university sophomore Kenneth A Silver 19 had minor injuries.
Warren F. Peters 40 of Tyler Minnesota and his two children Sylvia 11 and Roger 6 made a forced landing in a farm field two miles northeast of Elkhart Indiana after their light Piper Cub lost air speed. The right wheel dug in and flipped the plane, causing about 2900 dollars in damage but leaving all aboard uninjured.
Senate sources say President Johnson will request 12 to 15 billion dollars in additional war aid from the new Congress. The request would exceed the previously listed 9 to 10 billion dollars after talks with top administration fiscal and defense officials in Texas last month.
Old LeVander highlighted dozens of proposals in a 12 page appendix to his inaugural address. He urged holdbacks on real estate tax increases and annual legislative sessions. He backed highway bonding, a one cent gas tax rise, a new intermediate court of appeals, and a Missouri Plan style judge appointment. He supported higher workers compensation, repeal of the old age lien, free fishing licenses for seniors, and expansion of the University of Minnesota medical school.
The 1967 Minnesota traffic toll reached seven deaths after a car truck crash near McGregor killed Hjalmer Gjertsen 70 and his wife Hannah 67. The semi truck driver Joel Richardson, 29, from Grand Rapids, escaped injury on U.S. 65.
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